Chapter 4: The betrayal
Dusk has just begun to settle. Predators of the day retired to their dwellings and those of the night were not yet out, it was the safest time for certain species. Gently the grass moved a bit, as if only moved by the breeze. The moment later, carefully appearing at the edge of the clearing, a rodent lifted its head and checked the surroundings. As it seemed happy with the confirmed assessment that there was no one in the vicinity, it quickly jumped and made a sprint along the country road that crossed the property towards the mansion.
Sky above Little Hangleton was covered in thick layer of clouds and the darkness was complete, this evening at least he didn't have to worry about owls and such – thought the rat. The mission was success and his master would reward him, or at least he would avoid being treated like a Malfoy house-elf.
He ran through his usual hole in the wall, then towards the stairs that descended into deep subterranean vault. On the deepest level he came in front of the entrance to oubliettes. He changed into his human form and spoke the password. He let himself be scanned by security system, and when he was cleared there was magical shimmer on the doors.
He entered the Dark Lord's secret layer. A guard directed him to the waiting room, before he would be received to make his report. While waiting he was thinking of the prize he would receive for precious services; after all, he was the only one capable to safely approach James Potter.
"Wormtail!", he heard the call from the Lord's private chambers, and he swiftly entered.
Not for the first time in the last month, thoughts of Peter Pettigrew went to the man who gave him his nick-name, the man whose death he was about to bring. Once again he almost laughed of his good luck. When he bid good-bye to the Marauders after the graduation, he thought he was saying final fare well to this period of his life as he was to follow family tradition and enter the service of some rich pure-blood that represented nobility of the Wizarding world. For a while he was hoping that it would be the Potters, but James just had to be so damn tradition-breaking. When he entered service of the man calling himself Lord Voldemort, it was only out of the lack of employment, and he couldn't believe he did it: "Oh for Merlin's staff, not another would-be 'Dork' Lord!" However, he was happy to discover how wrong he was. Although of uncertain lineage, Voldemort behaved every bit as pure-blood stereotype – he was a parselmouth and pretended to be Heir of Slytherin. For Voldemort style was a weapon as much as his magical strength. Voldemort was also very powerful and ruthless in applying that power. Peter was completely extatic when he understood there were no bounds of moral or other nature, to what his new Master was ready to do in the name of victory. And now Peter was able to render speacial services, and maybe his new Master would offer him to be part of the family – family like he used to have with James Potter.
Voldemort's underground apartment could best be described as luxurious loft. His private chambers were composed of a relaxation area with a swimming pool and all other accessories Dark Lord of his standing could desire, an office area that contained large library and a laboratory that could be used for potions or other magical experiments as well as muggle engineering, and a dining area where some of above mentioned elves were preparing Dark Lord's meals – courtesy of Lucius Malfoy.
When Peter entered the Dark Lord was enjoying his usual evening dip.
"Wormtail! Robe me."
Peter hurried to obey towards the stairs descending into the pool.
"Couldn't you wait that I get out of the water?" – and Peter received hit to the head.
Peter Pettigrew was a perfect henchman, albeit sometimes overly eager to serve. His position within "Inner Circle" was more secured with each service he performed for the Dark Lord: the Lestranges were fanatics and enforcers, Malfoy was tasked to insure financial back-up and provide the luxury, Peter was a go-for, and Snape was a spy. These six are the only ones who could even remotely pretend to have Voldemort's trust (if he could even trust anybody). All others like simply deluded themselves into believing to be of greater importance than they truly were – that was one of Voldemort's strengths.
"Lately it's getting increasingly difficult to put my plans into motion Peter, without stumbling on those pesky Potters. I'm beginning to understand the warning of Abraxas Malfoy about them – its quite unbelievable that such 'Light' family has so many connections in the underworld. Albus Dumbeldore is an adversary I can fight head-on, but with the Potters I can't even hire sufficient number of thugs to pull my moves without sacrificing precious number of Death Eaters. I also completely understand Snape's hatred toward the man; he and Black are quite anoying with thier Auror team. That's why I'm sure you understand you have my undivided attention for your report."
"Well the mission to plant the bugging device went according to the plan my Lord. I swear the fool was so happy to meet us again. Although that Lily Evans was always able to send shivers down my spine even though she's a filthy mudblood. Your source sure knows his wards and runes if I was able to safely enter that fortress."
"Indeed, remind me to send him my thanks the next time Lucius goes to the Ministry. So what have you and Snape gathered on your stake out."
"You won't beleive your luck my Lord. That Black mutt formed coven with James Potter; he must have been pretty depresed when his family kicked him out. And to believe that Potter went with it; his ancestors must be turning into ectoplasm. Anyhow, what is great is that the Blacks, the Potters and the Longbottoms will be celebrating Samhain together at Godric's cottage, that place almost has no wards. That's about all we could get, there was some strange interference and the device quickly went out."
"That's rather meager result Wormtail considering all the efforts that went into this operation, I'm half-tempted to Crucio you into the next year. However, you are right and this is a great oportunity and so I will spear you this time."
"Thank you my Lord, you know I faithfully serve you!" said Peter quickly.
"Enough! Just remove your foul presence, I have much planning to do with the information you brought me."
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Petunia just couldn't believe how much her life had changed in the past years. At some point it all seemed to go down the drain so she completely lost track of how many times it made 180 degree turns.
She used to be happily engaged to Vernon Dursley, a man who was so normal and far from the Wizarding world that she happily looked forward to spend rest of her life away from all that madness. She was quite fond of the man and against her fears she decided to confide in Vernon and share the secret of her supernatural heretage. After all their children could one day be magical and Vernon deserved the truth.
Unfortunately the very day she was to break the news over dinner, after coming home from the market, she descovered Vernon's body in the bath tub. It was all made to look as a suicide.
She was absolutely devastated. Was there any reason Vernon would want to end his life? No, they were too happy together. Did Vernon have some enemies? Police couldn't point to any of his aquintnces as that dangerous as to engage a hit against Vernon, and Vernon Dursley was so completely ordinary person – Assistant Director at Grunnings, graduated from Smeltings. If there ever was someone who personified ordinary British middle-class man, then Vernon was that man. Everything pointed to suicide, and that was illogical.
And then all Petunia felt was self-loathing; she just couldn't believe she was so careless. It was one of first lessons they learnt as Spinners – never let your senses go down, world of magic is dangerous. And she was about to bring Vernon in on the secret.
But none of the Spinners she knew would pull such a low blow – killing a precious person in order to pass her the message that with her new lifestyle she became careless about possible dangers.
Official books of the Ministry have listed the community of Spinner´s End as muggle one. However this is one of those examples of blatant wizarding ignorance, for those official books simply list where witches and wizards had been detected, and at this moment the only Wizarding citizens detected in this community are Severus Snape and Elaine Snape, née Prince.
Spinners, as that is how they refer to themselves, are actually heterogenous community of magic users of various origins and species – although they all seem perfectly human and muggle. That was exactly what Elaine Prince thought when she met Tobias Snape.
The Princes where among those old pureblood families who were not as lucky as the Potters to pass through the Great Plague relatively unscathed, and were on constant decline since formation of the Ministry. Many of those declining families in order to fight the growing influence of the Malfoys and other Nouveaux Riches resorted to employing amorentia on the heirs of local rich muggle families. At first it seemed the Princes were unlucky even in that regard. Until Elaine Prince had the chance to bump against a man right in front of 'Leeaky Cauldron', and that man was both young and had classy presentation. They felt instant attraction to each other and Tobias initiated the courtship procedure.
To him she was just another magical user. To her he was just another muggle and she used amorentia. She was absolutely bouncing with happiness when she saw the splendor of Snape manor at Spinner's End.
One of the things that unite this community is complete dispise of Wizarding government that took upon themselves to rule over all magical humans and those they call 'half-breeds' without taking the notice of other forms of magic but the one they use themselves.
After one year and a half, Tobias' mind was free of amorentia for the first time. For some reason those arrogant witches were convinced that a man couldn't say no to them, and usually after a child was born they interrupted drug-feeding. He quickly understood what had happened and berated himself for beeing so carless, after all he was Chief of the community. What made things even worse Elaine registered their son for Hogwarts and a Wizarding official was also able to detect two other 'Wizarding' children in their community: Petunia and Lily Evans, the daughters of Tobias' blood brother Who Evans, officially called Hugh Evans. Tobias was absolutly furious, he was angry at himself, he was angry at Elaine, and he was angry that Severus came into the world before effects of amorentia cleared from his mind. And poor Severus was reminded all his child-hood why his father hated him, the only consolation Severus received while playing with two girls from the neighborhood who became his like his sisters.
Who Evans was one of those peculiar Spinners who only looked human, but in fact was not. Who Evans was dubbed Time Lord by his people he left far away from this Earth. He was among those alien explorers who after crossing countless galaxies, and having superior life span chose to settle on Earth, finding that magic here offered far greater possibilities than anywhere else.
Before completely settling as a father of family, Time Lord still had many adventures here on Earth, regarding combined flow of time and magic.
This portion of space-time that we call our home was unfortunately also the stage of the Great Conflict that oposed those Gods and Superior beings who wanted to share knowledge and power with lower beings and thus offer better conditions of evolution for both Gods and those lower species, and Gods who wanted to keep secrets for themselves and continue exploiting lower beings and feeding off their faith.
Among many companions Time Lord met on his journeys, his favourite people were Tobias Snape, Rose Evans and Hag Irina. During several of his missions, Time Lord needed help of Spinners, who held ability to move some forms of magic in certain ways that were particulry helpful to Time Lord. After meeting their community and seeing that there were also some other alien explorers among them, he chose to settle there and keep the guard on this world. Tobias became his blood brother and Rose his wife. Rose and Who became parents of a beautiful girl named Petunia.
On one of his missions Who was obliged to build his second person and send it on a different mission while continuing to pursue his goals. That proved to have far more consequences than he was able to imagine at the time. The Second Doctor went to Yalta of the 12th century, there he was supposed to meet a person with ability to help him resolve the battle among the Others. On Yalta he met three individuals, the Norns – they had the ability to wield destiny of men, and could thus help settle the conflict of the Others concerning men's free choice of Light and Darkness and question of an Other with 'ultimate' power.
Three Norns are very revered among magic users, particulary in communities connected to Druids, or among the Witches of the Green Way. Druids revered them as Three Sisters. The Witches called them Three Mothers.
The Norns practiced what is called transfering reproduction. After finding suitable candidate or cadidates, these would be captured and forced to mate with the Norns. Each Norn would give birth to a girl and this girl would first be aprentice to her mother and later mother would transfer and merge her being with her daughter's. Norns thus had inteligence and memories of countless generations.
Although these women were called Hags or Crones, truth was quite the oposite. The Second Doctor discovered that Norns should be named Three MILFs. Irina was especially explosive combination of heavenly looks and cutting personality she partly inherited from her many times great-grandmother Circe.
Thanks to Irina the Doctor was able to form barter with Norns. They would help him, and he would father their girls. About a year after his successful mission with the Others, three girls were born. Unfortunately girls inherited more from the Doctor than Norns were looking for and three girls merged into one baby. That called for extra-ordinary assembly of looking through the crystal ball that was their eye into the abyss of unknown. And it was decided that they would transfer themselves into little girl right away and let the Doctor take them on the Next Great Adventure.
Thus one morning Who Evans was meeting his other self who gave him his daughter to raise and merged back with him. Rose was very understanding and accepted Lily as her own – she and Petunia would both be thought ways of the Spinners. However, Who and Rose decided he would avoid creating more of himself in the future.
Petunia and Lily were growing up in loving family and cherished each other's company.
The Doctor could understand how Tobias felt, and knew the hatred was not directed toward the boy, but toward Tobias himself who as leader of community should have been more vigilant with other magic users. The Doctor decided to open his home to poor Severus Snape and offer love and care to the boy that needed them so much.
Unfortunately the happiness of that little family was shadowed by the events that hit London Metropolitan area in the winter and the spring of 1957 – a series of child abductions and killings, a majority of whom were little girls.
The Press was already starting to dub this case a more gruesome version of Jack the Ripper, when Lily Evans disappeared. She was last seen drawing in the school yard during the break before her last lessons of that day. The weather was clear and warm, and spring sun shined its promises for a long, hot summer, just like that first school year was promise of a lifetime of adventures to an unsuspecting little girl.
Commissioner Doyle of Scotland Yard was patient and methodic man. Many had found his approach unorthodox, especially his interest in the occult. Many of his colleagues thought he would finally hit the dust for taking sabatical year to attend Oxford Occult, but entire establishment was uterly shocked to see Sir Archibald Croaker act in his favour. Result, he was named Commissioner instead of respectfully being thanked for his services and getting an early retirement.
When Doyle arrived to the village of Spinner's End his first impression of the place was: "Oh Lord, not another 'Village of the Damned'". He had a gut feeling there was some stigma on the community, but for the sake of saving the girl's life he prefered not to unnecessarily push the things where they shouldn't be pushed.
Doyle was approached right away by the father, Hugh Evans with an offer to give all help he would be able. Doyle's first impression of the man was that he was of incredibly sharp mind, someone who could be dead useful on the force in the Yard, or even better with Croaker's Unspeakables. For a moment Doyle thought he became victim of 'Commissioner's curse' – there was a belief in the Yard that for the last hundred years every Commissioner eventually finds his 'Sherlock Holmes', an independent consultant who gets to be his partner in investigations. However, Doyle noticed there was an uncanny number of sharp witted people in this community and they all worked as a family trying to save one of their own, he noticed the particular zeal displayed by Tobias Snape to help in the matters, and also that everybody looked up to the man for comfort in this dark hour for their village. The reaction Doyle recieved during investigation was that entire village was shocked that a child from their community could be kidnapped from the local school – they were all like a big family and would never even unintentionnally endanger a child's life, let alone bring serious harm. That ment that the culprit was not from the community, but that made things impossible as there were no travellers going through the village in years.
Doyle accepted the help of Hugh and Tobias, and they picked up victim's files from other cases and started regrouping common occurences.
-All victims were between 6 and 8 in their first year of elementary school. Only two were boys.
-All victims were kidnapped at their school. Professors and other staff were there for years.
-All bodies were discovered in abandoned buildings or that served as storage space.
-There were periodical crime waves of child disappearence in the same areas roughly spaced 70 years going back to Restauration period.
-All schools were in old buildings. After the war the same architecture bureau carried out reconstruction work where there was damage.
-All buildings once belonged to the same man, Francis Palladin, the King's counsellor during Restauration. He leged part of his buildings to be transformed into schools or orphanages.
-The only difference was the school in Spinner's End where the building bilonged to Palladin's alleged mistress, Lady Angelique Douée Marquise of Astraté. Also this area was never before part of any of previous crime waves.
Spinner's End was a yound community of about fifty years. The Spinners were previously nomadic community, often wrongly believed to be of Gipsy origin by sedentery people. Tobias was now starting to believe that his father was swindeled into accepting the deal for aquisiton of the land that was now village of Spinner's End. Tobias Snape thought there had to be some curse on the luck of Snape's men.
Palladin was a non-magical (Doyle refused to employ the term 'muggle' he heard from Croaker, it seemed like an insult – even though nobody and nothing is completely non-magical). He also heard, after giving his report to Croaker, that Palladin's name was already known to Croaker as the man was follower and had studied works of the famous alchemist Rombaldi, the one who established foundations of modern alchemy and the last true alchemist.
Rombaldi was rumoured to have discovered incredible magical treasures, even worlds beyond great Nicolas Flamel. It was believed that Rombaldi applied revolutionary new insight on alchemy knowledge and discovered stunningly simple and elegant formulas for previously hardly understandable formulas. In fact it was believed that his discoveries were so beyond anything imaginable that they were origin of the Great Plague that almost wiped Wizarding world.
Rombaldi was Croaker´s great passion. It was a sort of enygma that every true Unspeakable dreamed of testing hers or his witts on. Croaker's dream was to be able to descover the key to Rombaldi's research and return the Wizarding world to its previous glory. He hoped one of Rombaldi's followers or people who have previously studied his works might have discovered something that remained hidden. Palladin himself had very curious reputation and Croaker believed that this man was probably Rombaldi's closest follower. That is until he found some sources indicating that it was Lady Angelique that initiated Palladin. It was rather logical – sources indicated that she like Palladin was non-magical, but had uncanny understanding of all things magical. Her name was even today respected among many magical creatures throughout Europe, although Unspeakables couldn't find suitable explanation why.
The investigation came to an unexpected breakthrough when Commissaire Doyle discovered that janitors of several schools were actually the same man who gave false names and provided perfect forgeries upon entering the service. It was discovered that he was working for the architecture bureau that restaured the schools or issued order that some be closed and transformed into storage spaces. The man's mother was Director in the architecture firm and was also able to give forged identity and be placed on a Committee that selected which firm would get the job to reconstruct all the buildings that needed to be. That woman was also herself a victim of kidnapping 70 years ago.
Doyle and his team were quickly able to understand that Palladin used what Hugh Evans called 'perverted form of transfering reproduction'. Palladin was able to divise a way to transfer his intelligence and personality into a young child using muggle way. Very quckly he started to prefer being a woman who would later give birth to children who would become her assistants in crime. The trio was quickly able to discover the woman's trail and bring the series of crimes to an end. Unfortunately the girl they rescued at Palladin's place was not Lily Evans.
However, by some providential miracle one morning, just like the years ago, Hugh and Rose discovered Lily on their doorstep, she was unharmed and was unable to remember what so ever. All scans were unable to give any information to what kind of treatment she was subjected to.
Everything seemed to be well again. But something about Lily was starting to freak out Petunia and created akward atmosphere between sisters. The chasm between the three children continue to grow as they attended Hogwarts.
After meeting a muggle man who was in the service of Unspeakables, Hugh and Tobias mellowed somewhat about an idea of cooperating with Wizards and sending their children to Hogwarts. Tobias decided that Severus would no longer bear the load of his own mistakes.
Also an event that was suppose to be a joke as far as Doyle was concerned, brought consequences to the destiny of three young people. Because of some gut feeling, the Commissioner wanted to apply certain test on the children that he suspected were magical, but didn't want to push the issue with the community.
There was the test proposed by one of senior members of Unspeakables, called the Rockwood-Von Richter test. The Rockwoods were one of the darkest families of Wizarding world. They knew and practiced obscure magic and were ruthless about achieving their goals. It was rumoured that Senior Director Rockwood shares Croaker's passion for Rombaldi, and where Croaker used detective work to pursue his passion, The Rockwoods used literal hands on the meat method. Senior Director Rockwood's cousin – junior technician Rockwood used to work for certain Prof. Von Richter, who himself was in the service of Grindelwald.
Von Richter's goal was to create army of Homunculi that would infiltrate muggle world. His approach was not to use direct means to creat grown up specimens, but to use bio-engineering and create babies that would be trained to perfectly blend and be dormant agents until their services were needed. Junior technician Rockwood designed a test that would evaluate children's potential to be good agents – he even went so far away as to create completely general version capable to measure any child regardless of its magical or biological origins. Senior Director Rockwood wanted to start applying this test through the Wizarding world, because there was a series of parchments from Rombaldi describing the venue of particularly powerful witch.
Although Croaker was firmly against such methods, he wanted to use this oportunity where in controled environment and in complete secret from other Unspeakables he could test few children he suspected were magical and see what was degree of danger represented by Rockwood – after all Croaker knew Rockwood had contacts with the Centre of Blue Cove, Denver where muggle organisation proposed kidnapping gifted children and turning them into perfect agents.
The test itself was innocent enough: a series of games – puzzles, IQ tests, playing to assemble or disassemble a toy gun and other weapons, there were also physical games where strength and reflexes were tested and games to test gift for martial arts and the ease to learn to kill, and there were the test to evaluate proficiency with various forms of magic, emotional state and to test personality of the suject.
"Hello boss. Don't say my name. Here is my recommendation for the tourist tour.
Your interest in the petrified forest was extremely well justified.
The three dwarves are indeed incredibly promissing. The boy and older girl are exceptional, but younger girl could only be described as off the charts and completely unknown waters. Her results are unbelievable even compared to the No6 of the original players of the game who hereself was described as rare gem by the creators of the game."
"Thank you my boy. I can hardly wait for your return and to hear all the details."
That is how it was decided that all three children would attend Hogwarts. Severus would naturally follow the programme for half-blood Wizards with encouriging of contact with pure-bloods. Petunia's level of wizard magic would deem that she follows the Squib programme even if she officially came from non-magical family. In face of Lily's exceptional results it was decided she would follow pure-blood programme and be suitably guided through her education by the Sisterhood. The Gray Lady would offer liason between the Sisters present at Hogwarts and Perenelle Flamel who offered to educate Lily in both witchcraft and alchemy. It was deemed that Lily was perfect candidate to one day become exceptional Great Mother of the order.
After extremly varied education that helped develop her mind, body and magic to exceptional levels, and after her doctoral studies at Oxford Occult, Lily was naturally contacted by Sir Archibald to be incorporated into his special task force of the Cooperation Department. She naturally performed outstanding in all her missions no matter how perillous.
All through her education and her trials as young field agent, Lily was constantly encouraged and comforted by the spiritual voicies of her ancestors she could hear in her mind, and right there beside the voice of Irina and her other mothers was the voice she grew to be fondest of – Lady Angelique of Astraté.
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It was about a month after she came back to her parents' house that Petunia finally recieved visit from Severus Snape. They had grown distant after the incident that created a break with Lily, and after her own fiasco with Lily's attempt at forming a coven. Severus disappeared right after Hogwarts and she hadn't kept in touch with Lily for years.
Now suddenly Severus was here at her door step. This reunion started with exceeding care from both sides not to bring akward memories and to make every effort to see what was left of their frienship.
Severus started making regular visits and soon he managed to make Petunia break her isolation, and so they started going out.
Quickly they both noticed they felt romantic interest for each other.
After their perfect first time, Severus' eyes became more darkened like the pits of hopelessness. He put complex wards around them and began telling her his story.
First thing he did however, was to insure Petunia he did not wait this long to use her, but that he wanted they collected more happy memories together before he told her his secrets.
After his painful early childhood, he became quite close with his father and was in fact now leader of the Spinners.
During his Hogwarts years Tobias and Severus made first steps in what would become Severus' permanent mission. With Croaker's benediction Doyle released Severus' and Petunia's test results to all Unspeakables with postdated forms and slightly changed results to incorporate their magical education up to that moment, with explanation that Croaker wanted to see practical use of Rockwood-Van Richter testing method and he considered two subjects from a community not belonging to Wizarding world a perfect oportunity. To say the Senior Director Rockwood was extatic about the news was understatement. It was the beginnig of close colaboration between Croaker's and Rockwood's teams – actually Croaker took an oportunity to keep a better eye on Rockwood and his increasing activities in supporting certain Tom Marvolo Riddle in the ascetion to become Dark Lord Voldemort.
Naturally while at Hogwarts every occasion was good for Severus to express his pure-blood supremancy beliefs and when that final incident with Lily and the Marauders occured, he used it to seal his employment contract with Lucius Malfoy.
After Hogwarts Severus start working for Rockwood as assassination expert and further expanded his potions mastery. Later he was directly under Senior Director Rockwood as research expert replacing his prematurely deceased cousin. All the while he was cooperating with Croaker into sabotaging every possible mission and using every successful one to actually create position that would bring douwnfall to pure-blood propaganda.
The ulitmate goal of Tobias and Severus was to initiate revolution that would put in motion necessary changes of the Wizarding world which was stagnating and pumping the resources of other magical communities. Instead of hoping to recover ancient glory by plagiating results of great wizards of the past, it would have been better to lead lives more in tune with magic and thus achieve what people like the Flamels and Rombaldi achieved and go even beyond.
What completely crushed Petunia was that from the start she was a piece in this plan and kept completely ignorant. The final drop that kicked the bucket fell when Severus told her that his last mission was to eliminate 'a useless muggle' – Vernon Dursley who was known to be extemely violent with prostitutes and put stop to his project to sully a nice proper witch like Petunia Evans (even though she was officially muggle-born). Petunia was uterly devastated – her life with Vernon was a lie, and she believed her friendship and love with Severus had to also be a lie, after all hadn't she also lost contact with her sister and only resently recovered warmth of the home after returning to Spinner's End. And now she descovered that all those people she called family, friends and neighbours, lived with a hidden agenda.
She started to cry and shout at Severus, and he started to hug her tightly to give her comfort he wasn't sure she would accept. They ended being envelopped into each other like they were during their love making. Fire soared fueled by anger and passion and thirst for love and comfort and finding home again, and they both started frenetical pounding into each other while crying ther committment to each other through cries and moans like animals.
After thorpughly enjoying a well deserved bliss after a Mt. Everest of orgasms, Petunia and Severus decided he would recruit her for Rockwood and offer her chance to seek revenge after the Spinners for killing Vernon, that way Rockwood would be sure of her loyalty and when the community of Spinners would fall Wizards would take possessions of their magical resources. She would also become important agent in Rockwood's quest for Rombaldi's artifacts – given her exceptional test results.
Petunia and Severus thus became secret employees of Croaker while officially working for Rockwood. Their excellence in the field easily rivaled Lily's and their successes were largely fueled by the habit they had taken in making passionate love in order to expell stress after missions.
And there was Petunia now, waking after one of the best nights of love making she could remember – of course with Severus it was so hard to keep the count. When he came back last night he was so frustrated about something and she knew it would all be expressed in the bedroom. They were right about to go from heated fore-play to proper shagging, and she couldn't believe Severus would choose that moment to open himself about the evening's events. He told her about Voldemort's plans for James and Lily Potter.
"Do you still desire her Severus? I know you had your thing with her at Hogwarts."
At first it seemed like that question showing misplaced jealousy – both because how they were closely wrapped up right at that moment and because of the fact that her sister's life was in danger, but Snape knew his woman well. "Yes you damned succubus, you Evans sisters were top wet dream material at Hogwarts, and I still can't beleive how you can make me feel as there are nothing but hormones in my blood stream."
"Then if you are good boy Severus, we will go and have our little revenge for all those times Mistress Lily Evans and pretty-boy Potter left us bothered and ashamed of our desires – right after we make sure certain self-styled Dark Lord cease to be a nuisance." And they engaged themselves into making inventory of all the things they would do to the Potters for remainder of the night.